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1769 episodes transcribedThe TV show Impeachment: American Crime Story dramatizes Bill Clinton's impeachment through the stories of three women at the heart of the proceedings...
Congress reached a deal to raise the debt ceiling enough to cover the government's spending for a few more months. Anemic job growth persists. Former...
Tens of thousands of Afghans have been brought to the United States but most have not yet been resettled in communities. The process is complex, with...
Former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham was part of the Trump administration from the beginning and, in a conversation with Tamara Keith,...
Former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen told senators that the company knows its products harm children and stoke division, but that executives...
Biden's top trade official, Katherine Tai, indicated in a Monday speech that tariffs levied against China initiated during the Trump administration wo...
In the latest installment of the Politics Podcast book club, NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben interviews Calvin University historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez abo...
Congress kept the government open but Democrats are still working out how to pass the two major pillars of the Biden agenda. And the president's appro...
An empowered conservative majority on the Supreme Court will consider a number of social and cultural issues at the heart of American life, including...
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Dec. 1 in a case from Mississippi that tests whether all state laws that ban pre-viability abortions are unconst...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and Commander of U.S. Central Command Gen. Kenneth McKenzie tes...
Democratic Party discord threatens what amounts to nearly all of President Biden's domestic agenda, from childcare to climate. Compounding the challen...
Congressional Democrats are trying to wrap up negotiations on their reconciliation package, fund the government, and deal with the debt ceiling. But w...
Seven House lawmakers are facing ethics complaints for violating the Stock Act, which polices insider trading, because of a recent bipartisan trend of...
The Biden administration is expelling hundreds of Haitian migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, after thousands arrived at a crossing near Del Rio, Texa...
In his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, President Biden emphasized the importance of global cooperation to combat the coronavirus...
The GOP has a good shot at taking at least one if not both chambers of Congress in next year's midterm elections. And they are already sharpening thei...
Saturday's "Justice For J6" rally is being held to protest government treatment of people who participated in the riot. It could serve as a test of ho...
The group was founded in 1985 to get Democratic women who back abortion access elected to office and has faced criticism in the years since from peopl...
Progressives feel as though their job compromising on the $3.5 trillion dollar budget bill is done, while Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema say the...
